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Direct linkTreas, Judith; de Ruijter, Esther – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2008
Despite the rise in women's paid employment, little is known about how women and their partners allocate money to outsource domestic tasks, especially in unmarried unions. Tobit analyses of 6,170 married and cohabiting couples in the 1998 Consumer Expenditure Survey test hypotheses that recognize gender inequality between partners, gender typing…
Descriptors: Income, Expenditures, Employed Women, Housework
de Ruijter, Esther; Treas, Judith K.; Cohen, Philip N. – Social Forces, 2005
Using data from the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey 1998, this study analyzes how much money different types of households spend for domestic services on "female" and "male" tasks. We test alternative hypotheses based on economic and sociological theories of gender differentiation. Contrary to arguments that marriage lowers the risk to one…
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Females, Males, Expenditures
